Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Absentia ejus qui reipublicae causa abest neque ei neque alii damnosa esse debet
The absence of a person who is abroad in service to the state ought to be prejudicial neither to that person nor to another. Dig. 50.17.140.
Bello parta cedunt reipublicae
Things acquired in war go to the state.
Causa ecclesiae publicis aequiparatur; et summa est ratio quae pro religione facit
The cause of the church is equal to public causes; and paramount is the reason that acts in favor of religion.
Causae ecclesiae publicis causis aequiparantur
The causes of the church are equal to public causes.
Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare
An agreement of private persons cannot derogate from public right. ( That is, it cannot prevent the application of general rules of law, or render valid any contravention of law.
Director of Public Prosecutions
An officer (usu. a barrister or solicitor of ten years' standing) who advises the police and prosecutes criminal cases in England and Wales under the supervision of the Attorney General.
Est autem jus publicum et privatum quod ex naturalibus praeceptis aut gentium aut civilibus est collectum; et quod in jure scripto jus appellatur, id in lege Angliae rectum esse dicitur
Public and private law is that which is collected either from natural precepts of the (law of) nations or from civil precepts; and that which in the civil law is called jus is said in the law of England to be right. Co. 1Jtt. 558.
Expedit rei publicae ne sua re quis male utatur
It is to the advantage of the state that a person should not make bad use of his own property.
Expedit rei publicae ut sit finis litium
It is to the advantage of the state that there should be a limit to litigation.
Flumina et portus publica sunt, ideoque jus piscandi omnibus commune est
Rivers and ports are public; and therefore the right of fishing is common to all.
Foeminae ab omnibus officiis civilibus vel publicis remotae sunt
Women are excluded from all civil and public charges or offices.
Foeminae non sunt capaces de publicis officiis
Women are not qualified for public offices.
Forstellarius est pauperum depressor, et totius communitatis et patriae publicus inimicus
A forestaller is an oppressor of the poor, and a public enemy of the whole community and the country.
In republics maxime conservanda sunt jura belli
The laws of war must be especially preserved in the state.
Interest reipublicae ne maleficia remaneant impunita.
It is in the interest of the state that crimes not remain unpunished.
Interest reipublicae ne sua quis male utatur.
It is in the interest of the state that no one misuse his own property.
Interest reipublicae quod homines conserventur.
It is in the interest of the state that people should be protected.
Interest reipublicae res judicatas non rescindi.
It is in the interest of the state that judgments already given not be rescinded.
Interest reipublicae suprema hominum testaments rata haberi.
It is in the interest of the state that a person's last will should be held valid.
Interest reipublicae ut carceres sint in tuto.
It is in the interest of the state that prisons should be secure.
Interest reipublicae ut pax in regno conservetur et quaecunque paci adversentur provide declinentur.
It is in the interest of the state to preserve peace in the kingdom and prudently to decline whatever is adverse to it.
Interest reipublicae ut quilibet re sua bene utatur
It is in the interest of the state that each person make good use of his own property.
Interest reipublicae ut sit finis litium.
It is in the interest of the state that there be a limit to litigation.
Jura publica anteferenda privates
Public rights are to be preferred to private.
Jura publica ex privato promiscue decidi non debent
Public rights ought not to be determined in confusion, from private considerations. ( In Coke's example, the validity of a sheriff's warrant is not affected by a dispute among the parties. Co. Litt. 181b.
Jurisdictio est potestas de publico introducta, cum necessitate juris dicendi
Jurisdiction is a power introduced for the public good, on account of the necessity of dispensing justice.
Jus publicum privatorum pactis mutari non potest
A public right cannot be changed by agreements of private parties.
Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum
The law would sooner endure a private loss than a public evil.
Ne quid in loco publico vet itinere fiat
Let nothing be done (put or erected) in a public place or way.( The title of an interdict in the Roman law.
Necessitas publica major est quam privata
Public necessity is greater than private necessity.
Non debet dici tendere in praejudicium ecclesiasticae liberatatis quod pro rege et republica necessarium videtur
What seems necessary for the king and the state ought not to be said to tend to the prejudice of spiritual liberty.
Non est singulis concedendum quod per magistratum publice possit fieri, ne occasio sit majoris tumultus faciendi
That is not to be conceded to private persons which can be publicly done by the magistrate, lest it be the occasion of greater tumult.
Nullum tempus occurrit reipublicae
No time runs against the commonwealth (or state).
Omne magnum erernplunt habet alicyuid c:r iniquo, quod publica utilitate compensa Tur
Every great example has some portion evil, which is compensated by its public utility.
Pacta privata juri publico derogare non possunt
Private contracts cannot restrict (or take away from) public law.
Pactis privatorum juri publico non derogatur
There is no derogation from public law by private contracts.
Princeps et respublica ex justa causes possunt rem meam auferre
The king and the commonwealth can take away my property for just cause.
Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat
An agreement of private persons does not derogate from public law.
Privatum commodum publico cedit
Private yields to public advantage.
Privatum incommodum publico bono pensatur
Private disadvantage is made up for by public good.
Privilegium non valet contra rempublicam
A privilege has no force against the commonwealth.
Public
n. 1. The people of a nation or community as a whole <a crime against the public>. 2. A place open or visible to the public <in public.
Public Utility Holding Company Act
A federal law enacted in 1935 to protect investors and consumers from the economic disadvantages produced by the small number of holding companies that owned most of the nation's utilities. ( The Act also sought to protect the public from deceptive security advertising. 15 USCA §§ 79 et seq. - Abbr. PUHCA.
Public Vessels Act
A federal law enacted in 1925 to allow claims against the United States for damages caused by one of its vessels. 46 USCA §§ 781-790.
Publicanus
[Latin] A farmer of the public revenue; that is, a tax collector.
Publication
n. 1. Generally, the act of declaring or announcing to the public. 2. Copyright. The distribution of copies of a work to the public. ( At common law, publication marked the dividing line between state and federal protection, but the Copyright Act of 1976 superseded most of common-law copyright and thereby diminished the significance of publication. "The concept of publication was of immense importance under the 1909 Act. It became a legal word of art, denoting a process much more esoteric than is suggested by the lay definition of the term. That it thus evolved was due largely to the American dichotomy between common law and statutory copyright, wherein the act of publication constituted the dividing line between the two systems of protection [state and federal]." 1 Melville B. Nimmer & David Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright § 4.01, at 4-3 (Supp. 1997).
Publicist
1 A public-relations person. 2. An international-law scholar.
Reipublicae interest voluntates defunctorum effectum sortiri
It is in the interest of the state that the wills of the dead should have their (intended) effect.
Republic
n. A system of government in which the people hold sovereign power and elect representatives who exercise that power. ( It contrasts on the one hand with a pure democracy, in which the people or community as an organized whole wield the sovereign power of government, and on the other with the rule of one person (such as a king, emperor, czar, or sultan). - Abbr. rep. - republican, adj. Cf. DEMOCRACY.
Republication
n. 1. The act or an instance of publishing again or anew. 2. Wills & estates. Reestablishment of the validity of a previously revoked will by repeating the formalities of execution or by using a codicil. ( The result is to make the old will effective from the date of republication. - Also termed (in sense 2) revalidation. - republish, ub. Cf. REVIVAL (2).